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Answer: Hearts

Also known, to some, as 'Red Hots', cinnamon hearts are a spicy type of candy that some may use in place of a mint after a meal (though both are likely equally sugary when it comes down to it). Generally made of sugar and corn syrup (ie. more sugar), these chewy confections are often not sweet, instead leaning into the innate heat of intense cinnamon. Often, while they don't actually form defined hearts, their high volume of sales around Valentine's Day and Christmas has led them to be marketed successfully as such.

Answer: Hearts

Black Lady refers to a variation of the card game Hearts wherein the goal is to avoid the Queen of Spades due to her high penalty (of thirteen points), and while the name may not sound familiar, it's the version of Hearts that seems to have taken the most prominence over time.

The goal of the game is to discard cards, but avoid taking tricks containing the hearts suit...or the Black Lady herself. Some also refer to this game as 'Black Maria', and it's the version of Hearts you'll find if you play the game on a Microsoft computer.

Answer: Hearts

One of the most important organs in animal bodies, the heart is a muscle that pushes blood through the circulatory system of a living creature enabling it to...well...live. Working in conjunction with the lungs, it also transports oxygen to the rest of the body, enabling cellular functions to work.

The heart may not look exactly like the traditional shape of a heart, but the thought's still there.

Answer: Hearts

The seventh studio album by Miley Cyrus, "Plastic Hearts" appeared to be a return to form for the former Hannah Montana star, allowing her to remain on radios with the rock-tinged song "Midnight Sky", which pulled samples from Stevie Nicks' "Edge of Seventeen" (with whom she duetted on the Deluxe Edition).

This 2020 album paved the way to Cyrus' massively well-received 2023 album, "Endless Summer Vacation", which won her her first Grammy Awards, specifically for "Flowers".

Answer: Diamonds

Notably, baseball games are played on diamonds composed of four bases (home base, first, second, and third), and batters who are able to hit pitched balls are required to run the bases, hitting each one before returning home. The rules of baseball, determining the distances between these bases (and everything within them) was determined over the course of the nineteenth century. Baseball, and variations of it (softball being one), are essentially the only sports played on diamonds.

Answer: Diamonds

Releasing as a single from Rihanna's seventh studio album (the 2012 release, "Unapologetic"), "Diamonds" was a massive international hit, going multi-platinum around the globe and hitting number one on everything from the US Billboard Hot 100 to the UK Singles Chart, even becoming a decade-topping single in a number of nations.

Interestingly, the song was originally written by fellow musical artist, Sia, who optioned this track, amongst many, to Rihanna. Sia would still perform the song on subsequent tours and, on her own albums, she opted to use other songs optioned out for her own gain. One such song she originally put in front of Rihanna for her "Anti" album, "Cheap Thrills", ended up becoming a 2010s radio staple in its own right.

Answer: Diamonds

Blood diamonds are named as such due to the fact that they're mined under notably unethical conditions, often in locations that exploit workers, and often for regimes or governments that lead turbulent nations. A number of African nations have dealt with this on a recurring basis, often through diamond buyers of great repute.

In 2006, the Leonardo DiCaprio film "Blood Diamond", which was set during the civil war in Sierra Leone, touched on the topic and provided significant visibility to the effort to stem the problem of this industry.

Answer: Diamonds

Both the 1956 Ian Fleming novel and the 1971 Sean Connery film, "Diamonds Are Forever", feature James Bond as the hero of note, placing the MI6 agent into a new scheme. The film version ended up being Connery's last, and under odd circumstances since George Lazenby featured in the preceding movie, "On Her Majesty's Secret Service".

In this one, Bond has to stop Blofeld from setting up and blackmailing world governments with a massive space laser sent into orbit (and using diamonds to function).

Answer: Clubs

Although Mickey Mouse Clubs started as far back as the late 1920s, the official "Mickey Mouse Club" program started airing on television in the mid-1950s and featured a number of Mouseketeers as they went about fun and safe activities, many of which pertained to Disney and its intellectual properties. Over time, many cast members, especially in later decades, found fame in the entertainment industry. Former Mouseketeers include N*Sync's Justin Timberlake and JC Chasez, Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, Keri Russell, and Ryan Gosling.

Answer: Clubs

Said to have been invented in New York in the late 19th century, the club sandwich is typically made with toasted bread slices (one of which sits in the middle), chicken, bacon, lettuce, tomato, and mayo. There are, naturally, many variations on the club sandwich, many of which replace the chicken for something else (a turkey club is common) or, as might be considered sacrilege, the middle bread slice for a different ingredient altogether. Generally the finished sandwich is large enough to need a toothpick to be held together.

Answer: Clubs

A sand wedge is one of the essential clubs you'd be traveling with in a game of professional golf. Designed to help get golf balls out of sand traps/bunkers, it has a wide face on it, created at an angle that allows the ball to better bounce out of rougher terrain.

Interestingly, while golf was invented in the fifteenth century, the first marketable sand wedge emerged in the 1930s, becoming a staple club and, often, the heaviest brought along for the game.

Answer: Clubs

"The Breakfast Club" is a 1985 John Hughes classic featuring a group of actors who would proceed through the 1980s as 'The Brat Pack', partly because of their affinity for appearing in coming-of-age comedies and dramas in the subsequent years. Considered one of the definitive American teen films, it was selected for preservation at the United States National Film Registry in 2016.

The movie came after Hughes released "Sixteen Candles" a year earlier and was proceeded by further classics like "Weird Science" and "Ferris Bueller's Day Off".

Answer: Spades

Humphrey Bogart, considered one of the greats of classic Hollywood, was the man who popularized the role of Sam Spade in John Huston's 1941 detective noir film, "The Maltese Falcon" (based on the Dashiell Hammett novel). It would be a trend-setting role for the genre; Raymond Chandler, who would write several noir novels and films in the coming years, would base "The Big Sleep's" Philip Marlowe on Bogart's version of Spade before giving him the role.

Answer: Spades

Coming up in the New York fashion industry, Katherine Spade would start her eponymous company, Kate Spade New York, in the early 1990s, becoming a leading name in handbags before, inevitably, transitioning into a lifestyle-oriented fashion brand altogether.

Despite significant growth and popularity, Spade sold majority ownership of her brand in the 2010s but continued to design for the company until her death in 2018.

Answer: Spades

The loy is a manual plough which comes from the Old Irish word for 'spade', láí, and it does what you expect-- creates furrows through labour. The device is quite narrow for a plough, consisting of a thin, metal blade that has a block on its side for the user to push in with their foot, and it's otherwise pushed around with a thick, broom-like handle.

Naturally, due to its Irish origins, it was used for creating the furrows for potato farming until later advances in farm implements were created.

Answer: Spades

Created during the Zhou dynasty (the longest dynasty of China), spade money was a type of coinage used as currency for hundreds of years. Before using round coins, spade money was shaped like...well, a spade... with a narrow top and a wider, often split base that could either have a square edges or pointed edges depending on the denomination.

It's argued, based on archaeological finds from the 6th and 7th century BCE, that old molds for these coins indicate evidence of the world's oldest currency mint in part of what is, now, Beijing.